Cruel · AcId

95 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 31-38 and 71-82, and 1 more place -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
CRUEL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 1 is a stop and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBS6DS1S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruel?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Cruel hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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